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suppose you push open the door called meet. what would you like to see? how about an album of photos of all your xo friends who are currently also online/onlan? pushing your cursor onto one of them, a window on their current activity opens with a chat subwindow underneath.
suppose you push open the door called meet. what would you like to see? how about an album of photos of all your xo friends who are currently also online/onlan? pushing your cursor onto one of them, a window on their current activity opens with a chat subwindow underneath.
which brings me to cursors. "xo" is clearly an identity icon that would seem to be fixed in the minds of xo developers as their trademark. what does it represent? it represents "me", it's an icon of "me". everyone has they own colour - the first thing i was asked to do by sos (sugaronastick) was to choose my xo colour. i had no idea why i was being asked this!
which brings me to cursors. "xo" is clearly an identity icon that would seem to be fixed in the minds of xo developers as their trademark. what does it represent? it represents "me", it's an icon of "me". everyone has they own colour - the first thing i was asked to do by SoaS (sugaronastick) was to choose my xo colour. i had no idea why i was being asked this!
it turned out that everyone in my group or environment was also an xo and we were distinguished by our different monochrome colours (but it didnt occur to me to hover over them). the iconography of xo rather reminds me of a game called "pong" - the first video game - which had very low-res images because that's all the hardware could furnish at that time. but these days, we have high-res, high enough that my friends could be indicated to me by thumbnail-sized photos, so i could see over a dozen of them on my screen at the same time. and if my album were shown to me as an imaginary "rounded square" wheel (viewed edge-on), i could spin it and bring the other photos around the back to the front. it would help me if the photos were in alphabetic order of first name.
it turned out that everyone in my group or environment was also an xo and we were distinguished by our different monochrome colours (but it didnt occur to me to hover over them). the iconography of xo rather reminds me of a game called "pong" - the first video game - which had very low-res images because that's all the hardware could furnish at that time. but these days, we have high-res, high enough that my friends could be indicated to me by thumbnail-sized photos, so i could see over a dozen of them on my screen at the same time. and if my album were shown to me as an imaginary "rounded square" wheel (viewed edge-on), i could spin it and bring the other photos around the back to the front. it would help me if the photos were in alphabetic order of first name.
so, doors and wheels and xo as a cursor.... any comments? --[[User:David Brown|David Brown]] 22:34, 13 August 2012
so, doors and wheels and xo as a cursor.... any comments? --[[User:David Brown|David Brown]] 22:34, 13 August 2012
* These all seem worthy for further consideration and experimentation. The mass demand for touch and inertial interfaces is already producing easier computing. Perhaps there are some iPad or Android apps or app development environments that would allow more folks to mock up or create new, user inspired tools. (The XO 1.75 has an accelerometer and newer versions will have touch screens.)
* Many Sugar Activity instances already resume with the state automatically saved at the time of exit (depending on the developer's design--try Physics, for example).
* Children are frequently asked (or try for themselves) to do things that they don't understand. This seems a natural way of learning. --[[User:FGrose|FGrose]] 03:11, 14 August 2012 (EDT)